Tuesday, July 25, 2017

By any reasonable standard, this is so wrong

It
turns out that Donald Trump was abusing his power when he accused Qatar of
supporting terrorism and allowed sanctions against them.

Jared Kushner did not gain his position by getting confirmed
by the Senate. He got his cushy White House job because he is married to
Trump’s daughter Ivanka.

And
he has been using his position in an effort to do business, and is using
Trump’s power as president to retaliate against those who refuse to do business
with him.

Just before Trump went on a tirade
against Qatar, Kushner tried to get a loan from one of the richest men in the
small country, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani.

Kushner asked for a $500 million loan from al-Thani because he
needs to come up with $1.3 billion in the next two years before the
interest-only mortgage is due on his family’s 666 Fifth Avenue building in Manhattan.

The
only stipulation to getting the loan was that Kushner had to come up with some
co-funding for the project.

Of
course, Kushner failed to live up to his end of the deal, so al-Thani wisely
walked away rather than risk that much money on someone who makes promises he
can’t keep.

And because al-Thani rejected Kushner’s request, Donald Trump
retaliated against Qatar by accusing the Gulf nation of being too close to Iran
and gave Saudi Arabia the green light to cut diplomatic ties with Qatar and block
transports there.

Saudi Arabia is home to some Trump businesses, and Trump has
been sucking up to the Saudi government, so of course, Saudi Arabia would
gladly help Trump punish Qatar for refusing to give his family money.

Thought for the day

“Charlottesville is a great place that’s been very badly hurt over the last couple of days. I own, actually, one of the largest wineries in the United States. It is in Charlottesville.”

Donald Trump, responding to a question whether he would go to Charlottesville to offer support and comfort as so many Presidents have done in the past.

Quick fact check: Donald Trump does not own the winery; his idiot son Eric does under the name Eric Trump Wine Manufacturing LLC. And at 36,000 cases annual production, the winery is not even the largest winery in Virginia, never mind the United States.

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